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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1903)
is- l J l IVScCook Tribune F M KIMMELL Publisher MCOOK NEBRASKA 38SS3S5 THE NEWS IN BRIEF mxJxJxJ The speed trials of the new Austrian second class battleship Arpad at Pola proves her to be the fastest battleship in the world It is officially announced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra will ar rive in Dublin in July during their visit to Ireland Present indications are that the Yu kon output of gold this season will exceed that of last year from one mil lion to three million dollars The secretary of the treasury re jected the bid of Tibuco Castana for the raising of the Maine The secre tary will again advertise for bids The annual school census of Sioux Falls which has just been competed shows an increase of 371 chilldren of school age over the census of a year ago- Consular advices say that a fight recently occurred between Montene grin and Ottoman troops on the fron tier of Montenegro Five turks wers killed When the King of Siam is attired in his full complement of royal robes and is wearing all his state decorations their value amounts to something like 1000000 It is said at the Russian embassy that advices from St Petersburg are to the effect that evacuation of Man churia by Russia is steadily being carried forward The itinerary of the Kaiser for the past year just published shows that since the same date in 1902 his Majes ty has made sixty two journeys total ling over 24000 miles Denis Tavulari the greatest traged ian of Greece and the promoter of Shakespearean drama In the Orient is in New York making arrangements to bring his own company here in 1905 The receivership suit against the Michigan Telephone company a five million dollar corporation controlling all the phone system of the state of Michigan reached the United States court of appeals It Is announced authoritatively that Secretary Moody of the navy will not remain in the cabinet longer than the present term of President Roosevelt Mr Moody expects them to resume the practice of law The lieutenant governor of the Transvaal vSir Arthur Lawley has re mitted the remainder of the sentences of the majority of the former burgh ers convicted of military offenses dur ing the late civil war Complete returns of the election of twenty one delegates to a convention to draft a new charter for the consol idated city and county of Denver show that the entire non partisan civic tick et was successful Importations of manufacturers ma terials into the United States for the fiscal year which ends this month will be by far the largest in the history of our importations and will amount to nearly or quite 500600000 Secretary Hay has received a cable from Consul McWade at Canton which says Governor Wong telegraphs me that over 1000000 natives in kwang are starving and earnestly appealing for help from American charity The Brooklyn Eagle says that an investigation made by it shows that 500000 Tier annum is paid in New York state in excess of the normal commercial rentals for postoffices The Eagle adds that as the lease runs for ten years the loss amounts to 5000000 Despite the efforts of hundreds of men throughout the Adirondacks the forest fires are spreading The most serious fires are reported in the vi cinity of Long Lake east toward New comb lake and Mount Marcy At Lake Georgia the ashes fell like a heavy snow Black Feather the Shawnee chief tain lost his case in the Supreme Court of the United States He want ed the United States to reimburse the Indians pf his tribe for individual losses sustained in the civil war The court held that only tribal not Indi vidual losses could be considered The Rev Edward J Vattmann chaplain of the 29th United States in fantry has arrived in Rome from Manila by the way of the United States and has already had long in terviews with the members of the Sacred College and prominent offi cials of the Vatican about his report on Philippine affairs General Superintendent Winter of the Omaha railroad announced a new schedule of wages for all train asd yard men The new scale of wages is practically the same as that granted by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern Holders of a fairly large portion of the 14500000 of the first mortgages of the United States Shlpbuilidng company have announced their oppo sition to the reorganization plan under which they are to receive preferred stock A new bank Is about to be started at De Witt Plattsmouth reports a great surplus of vags and thieves Reports from over the state say the rain has ceased falling and the floods subsiding The rainfall for the month of May in Grand Island as taken by the gov ernment observer was 1208 inches A special train consisting of twelve carloads of cattle and hogs left Bea trice for the St Joseph market The stock belonged to Messrs Stoll Firo ved and Neuhauser of Beatrice Dr Bentz of Beatrice was seriously injured at his home in Plymouth Jef ferson county by being kicked out and trampled by a team of bronchos while he was engaged In feeding tbem The summer school of the state normal opened last week for a six weeks term and up to the present time 410 have enrolled Fifty one counties of the state are represented The mortgages filed and satisfied in Saunders county for the month of May are as shown Number of farm mortgages filed 20 amounting o 32 490 those satisfied 3C amounting to 5705020 The first annual meeting of Salem German Lutheran church of Fremont was held last week The secretarys report showed an increase in member ship from fourteen to sixty six or more than 350 per cent during the year Conductor Ed Hamilton who has been confined to his room for a week at Odebolt is getting along nicely but his face is still badly swollen While at Valparaiso in a barber shop the bar ber cut his neck and blood poison set in The case against Charles Green charged with having in his possession malt and spiritous liquors was called in the York county court The de fendant waived examination and was bound over to the district court in the sum of 300 G F Downie P A Kilner and W F Downie has filed articles of incorpora tion with the secretary of state for the establishment of a foundry and machine shop at York to be known as the Downie Wright Manufacturing company The authorized capital stock of the corporation is 75000 Jesse Miller and a young woman as yet unidentified but believed to have been a student at tire University of Chicago were drowned in the lagoon at Jackson park Chicago In a mem orandum book in the clothing of the dead man was the following If any thing happens to me notify Ira Miller or Sophia Casse 1G3G M street Lin coln Neb Owing to excessive rainfall which prevented a few of York county farm ers putting in all of their corn and places in corn fields washed out York county farmers are buying and order ing new seed corn of the earliest ma turing kind Winter wheat in low places is heading out and where water has stood will be damaged while wheat on higher places promises to be good The rainfall in Gage county taken at two different stations during the month of May this year was nearly three inches greater than it has been in any year of which there is any rec ord In 1896 the fall was 952 inches and during the month just closed the fall was 1228 inches There were only fourteen days out of the thirty one on which there was no trace of rain At the meeting of the board of pub lic lands and buildings James Tyler jr was chosen state architect accord ing to the provisions of the law passed by the last legislature Despite the fact that it will be necessary for the holder of this office to wait two years or until the next legislature can make an appropriation for his salary there was a rivalry for the place and the board experienced no little difficulty in fixing upon a choice Dodge county has been relieved of responsibility for the board of smallpox patients quarantined in its boarding house according to the rul ing of the supreme court Herman Deirs was running a lodging house in which a number of railroad construc tion men roomed Small pox broke out among them and the whole lot were quarantined They refused lo pay board and as Dierks could not fire them out without violating the quar antine rules he kept them and sued the city to recover the amount due him Articles of incorporation have been filed by J T Donahoo E E Howard I A Howard of Edgar and H R Foll mer of Nelson for the Artificial Stone Basin Tank company to be located at Edgar The company is incorporated at 3000 During the month of May there were two farm mortgages filed in Dundy county aggregating 00250 During the same time twelve similar mort gages were released which amounted to 1255 One city mortgage was filed i A ru i i jKHh General Nebraska News THE STATE AT LARGE THEY WANT TO BE SOLDIERS Several Companies Would Join tha National Guard LINCOLN A flood of new enlist ments in the state militia is beginning to pour into the office of the adjutant general These are coming in at the rate of about a dozen a day Twenty three were received Thursday A large number of the enlistments are men who have been recently dis chargd owing to the expiration of the term of service There are several companies now waiting admission to the national guard As the guard now has the full number of organizations allowed by statute it is necessary for these to re main independent companies stand ing their own expenses until such time as the disbanding of some pres ent company leaves a vacancy in one Of the two regiments If the Dick bill is taken to mean that a state to re ceive the government aid must con tain 2000 men it is thought that it would necessitate the placing of an other regiment in the state The two regiments could be enlisted up to that number but it Is a difficult matter to keep them there AS TO SUNDAY BASE BALL Is a Misdemeanor Punishable by Fine and Imprisonment The playing of base ball on Sunday in the state of Nebraska is a mis demeanor punishable by fine and im prisonment So holds the supreme court in a case brought before it from Nebraska City where Sunday ball playing became offensive to the law and order league and arrests of play ers followed In the case of the state again ORourlc decided twelve years ago the same holding was made by the court but in this case it was hoped to secure a reopening and a reversal of this opinion Nowhere in the stat utes is the playing of base ball on Sunday specifically inhibited but the court holds that the prohibition of sporting includes base ball Girl Fatally Burned ASHLAND Betsy Erickson a do mestic living with Mr and Mrs Fen ton a mile north of Ashland was so terribly burned that she will die Mr Fenton heard a piercing scream from her room He ran up and found her door locked and was obliged to smash the door before he could get in She was punning around with her clothes on fire He extinguished the flames but she is burned fatally Crop Prospect Is Good TAYLOR Although Loup county has had a heavier rainfall in the past month than ever before in a like period of time within the memory of the oldest inhabitant the crops are in excellent condition Corn is all plant ed and several fields -have already been cultivated The stand is excep tionally good Spring wheat is in prime condition and rye winter wheat and alfalfa fields are beautiful to be hold Omaha Man Goes to Beatrice BEATRICE Ed F Schurig of Om aha a technical electrical engineer arrived in the city to succeed E J Sullivan as manager of the Beatrice Electric Light companys plant Mr Schurig recently resigned ihe position as city electrician of Omaha Pay Bill for Execution The bill for the execution of Gott lieb Nieginfind has finally been allow ed by the board of public lands and buildings The total bill allowed was for 25380 of which 10 went to the rope Douglas county gets 50 for the scaffold and 150 goes to allowance as per order of board This sum is supposed to go to Warden Beemer because he was warden at the time of the execution Brakeman Loses a Leg FREMONT Frank Herse a freignt brakeman on the Northwestern as seriously and probably fatally injured at Scribner The train was doing some switching and Herse In some way slipped and fell between the plat form and the cars One leg was al most severed at the knee and will probably have to be amputated Hi other ankle was crushed Strikes Oil in Well YORK For some time it has been generally known that coal oil under laid York county and Thursday well diggers at a depth of 160 feet on the farm of Mr Braudhoeffer near Waco struck oil in such quantities that it was impossible to use the water from the well The well filled up to a depth of forty five feet and the odor of pe troleum is very strong Mr Brand hoeffer is sinking another well hop ing that he will not strike oil J - ONE MILLION PEOPLE STARVING Women and Children Are Freely Offer ed for Sale HONG KONG The estimate of Gov ernor Wong of Kwang Si province that over one million natives are starv ing in that province is pronounced here to be approximately correct The dis tress in certain districts is more acute Cnildren and women are freely offer ed for sale The rice harvest promises well but it will not be available for from four to six weeks Extensive re lief operations will be difficult without foreign supervision which will be hard to obtain in Kwang Si Assistance has been sent to that province from Hong Kong and Canton but the funds available are becoming exhausted Smallpox at Sail l ake SALT LAKE Utah Over fifty cases of smallpox have beene discov ered in the southeastern part of this city The disease on account of its mild form was at first taken for chicken pox and children attended school and their parents attended church and dances while suffering from the disease The health officers believe nearly every family living in that section of the city has been ex posed and a quarantine will resulL Secretary Moody Will Quit WASHINGTON D C It is an nounced authoritatively that Secre tary Moody of the navy will not re main in the cabinet longer than the present term of President Roosevelt Mr Moody expects then to resume the practice of law Favors Chamberlains Plan LONDON A telegram was receiv ed from Albert Brackin the attorney general of the Australian common wealth saying that the Australian commonwealth and all the govern 1 ments of the separate Australian j states approve Colonial Secretary Chamberlains proposals Only an ex- treme section of free traders oppose i tho nrwl an fmmpnso msinrifv is as- sured for the new policy when it is submitted nTM tir lift lit KAN8ASIS NO LONGEft A HOBO PARADISE It is reported that Kansas farmers have press gangs out after tourists MACHEN IS INDICTED Grand Jury Returns True Bill Against Head of Rural Delivery WASHINGTON The grand jury on Friday reported an indictment against August W Machen former superin tendent of the free delivery service of the Postoffice department who was arrested several days ago charged with sharing profits on government contracts for letter box fasteners The indictment was brought for violation of section 5501 of the revised statutes the penalty for violation of which is a fine of not more than three times the amount asked or accepted or received and imprisonment for not more than three years The amount which the indictment states he received illegally is 1897879 As an incidental result of the inves tigation Thomas W McGregor for merly of Nebraska in charge of the matter of rural delivery supplies for the Postoffice department in Washing ton and C Ellsworth Upton one of his assistants today were arrested on warrants sworn out by postoffice inspectors The charge is conspiracy to defraud the government the gov ernment in the purchase of pouches from C E Smith of Baltimore Mr Machen was in court with his attorneys when the grand jury report ed in his case and immediately gave bond in the sum of 20000 for his ap pearance NAMES OHIO TICKET Myron T Herrick Nominated for Gov ernor Without Oooosition For Governor MYRON T HERRICK For Lieutenant Governor WARREN G HARDING For Audi tor WALTER D GUILBERT For State Treasurer W S McKINNON For Attorney General WADE HAMPTON ELLIS For Supreme Judge AUGUSTUS M SUMMERS For School Commissioner E A JONES For Member of Board of Public Works GEORGE H W ATKINS COLUMBUS O The republican state convention closed Thursday after nominating the state ticket en dorsing Hanna for another term in the senate and Roosevelt for another term as president While Senator Foraker was presid ing the delegates formulated the campaign cry of Hanna Herrick Harding and Harmony It seemed to be the policy to have harmony on the ticket as well as in the declaration of principles While all conceded that it was Hannas year jet he would not use his influence except that for the head of the ticket he named his neighbor Myron T Herrick for gov ernor The senators great friend George B Cox of Cincinnati certainly named Warren G Harding for lieuten ant governor and Wade Hampton Ellis for attorney general as well as being the most potential factor in ing Judge Summers GOVERNMENT LENDS AID Commander at Fort Leavenworth Is sues Rations WASHINGTON D C Adjutant General Corbin received the following dispatch from Colonel Miner com manding at Fort Leavenworth Issue 10000 ritions to Kansas City Kan last night Need was impera tive Ask to have action approved Rations for this command up to 20th here Believe when we can get to the country to the west of us it will be destitute ol food Advise shipping rations here as central point to meet this demand x wo companies of en gineers and pontoon train are in read iness to be sent west Believe they might be of use at Lawrence The department has taken no action yet upon Colonel Miners recommenda tion for concentration of supplies at Fort Leavenworth HARRIMAN GOULD INTERESTS Said to Have Purchased the Erie Railroad NEW YORK The Evening Tele gram printed the following According to stories current in im portant financial circles Wednesday the control of the Erie railroad has been acquired by a combination of Gould Harriman and Rockefeller in terests and the road will be made the eastern connection of the Burling ton Union Pacific St Paul and Gould systems Tne Pennsylvania has been crowded out although Pennsylvania interests have been heavy buyers of Erie shares Passes an Amnesty Bill HAVANA The senate by a vote of eight to three passed a bill grant ing amnesty to pverybody arrested in connection with disturbances which arose out of the strike of the cigar makers last November The bill as originally drawn up excluded ex-Mayor OFarrill and the other arrested municipal officers from the amnesty but an amendment offered by the na tionalist senators was adopted in cluding all offenders WESTERN CANADAS IMMIGRATION Rapid Settlement of the Wheat Fields Lying North of the 4Sth Parallel From the Chicago Record Herald Canada has anticipated a very heavy Immigration this year and sho now has figures to show that sho Is actually getting it in a way to meet all her expectations In the first four monthB cf this year the doors of tho Dominion opened to 40672 persons according to a report prepared by tho coramitteo on agrlculturo and coloni zation of the Canadian parliament This is almost twice as large as tho immigration in the corresponding months last year and fwlly three times as large as in 1001 the respec tive figures fusing 22482 and 13393 Most of these newcomers have been attracted by the wheat lands of the Northwest territories They have moved direct to Winnipeg and they have turned that city into a great camp in which they have been fitting themselves out fcr the last stage of their adventure for new homes Of the immigration of this spring a little over a third has como from Great Britain the figure being 1G457 Tbls is three times as large as tho British immigration of the correspond ing months of the preceding year and it is within 2500 of the number of immigrants that the United States at tracted from Great Britain and Ire land in the name period this spring As to the remainder of the immigra tion into Canaua 137 id settlers came from the United States a 50 per cent Increase over the preceding year and 10445 from Continental Europe a 40 per cent increase These 40G72 immigrants into Can ada may appear trifling in compari son with 297070 persons who entered the United Statos in the same period but they are proportionately more im portant to the country Canadas pop ulation is one fifteenth of ours but her immigration is now two fifteenths as large as ours It is worth remem bering also that Canadas immigrants are almost entirely Anglo Saxon and Teutonic races while our immigra tion is now two thirds made up of Romance and Clav elements Speculation 13 natural as to the future of Canada In her relations to the United States when her North west territories are filled up but the one absolutely certain fact of the near future is that the United States is to have a great competitor in the grain markets of the world The above editorial article taken from the columns of the Chicago Record-Herald of May 26th shows tho condition of the Canadian immigra tion which as pointed out has had a constant growth a marvellously in creasing growth for the past six or seven years until this year it is con fidently assumed the increase to Can adas population by way of immigra tion will exceed 100000 This Is ac counted for by the great agricultural resources which abound there It Is no fairy tale but the mater-of-fact experience of the tens of thousands bear ample testimony to the wealth and riches in store for all who chooso to accept of the opportunities of fered Those who wish to learn more of the country can secure illustrated at lases pamphlets etc giving full and reliable data issued under government authority by applying to any of the authorized agents of the Canadian government These agents whose names appear below will quote you the exceptionally low rates that take ycu to the free grant lands of West ern Canada and render you any other assistance in their power W V Bennett 801 New York Life Building Omaha Nebraska Some people who like hops drink beer and others eat frogs legs If every man has his double how is it that so many of them remain sin gle More Flexible and Lasting wont Bbalte oat or blow out by using Defiance Starch you obtain better results than possible with any other brand and one third more for same money A reformer is generally a man who tries to convert others to his way ot thinking Still waters run deep but the shallow splashing wave attracts Go most attention HALF RATES via WABASH ItAIMlOAD The Wabash offers many rates to the East from Chicago Boston Mass and return 51900 Sold June 25th 26th and 27th Boston Mass and return 2100 Sold July 1st to 5th Saratoga X Y and return 51745- Sold July 5th and 6th Detroit Mich and return 675 Sold July 15th and 16th All tickets reading over the Wabash betwen Chicago and Buffalo are good in either direction via steamer be tween Detroit and Buffalo without extra charge except meals and berth Stop overs allowed at Niagara Falls and other points Remember this is The Cool Northern Route and ali Agents ran sell tickets from Chicago east via the Wabash For folders and all information address HARRY E MOORES G A P r Omaha Neb A wise man swallows his pills A fool chews them When the eve is in trouble use al rename remeuy ft I and inflamed eyes One bottle usually i eiiccib a complete cure CURES ALL EYE AFFECTIONS Y j m VBS MI its n wonderful rplipvpr nf tznrt
